Ep 198: Brad Smith ~ Deep Intuition, Transformation & Spiritual Awakening

What if you could tap into a hidden potential within your mind that could change the course of your life? Join us in a fascinating conversation with Brad Smith, an analytical chemist turned intuition expert, who unravels the link between science and spirituality. Brad's journey from the lab to spiritual enlightenment is marked by profound realisations, including the discovery that our minds can function like complex puzzles, assembling vast information in an instant. His insights into the brain's gamma state during epiphanies offer a fresh perspective on intuition, revealing it as a state of being that can be consciously fostered rather than just an innate gift or skill set.

Brad also shares a deeply personal story of transformation spurred by a serious health diagnosis at a young age. His path to healing, through self-awareness and hypnotherapy, highlights the importance of taking responsibility for one's own personal growth. From overcoming emotional trauma to navigating the business world, Brad’s experiences illustrate the power of self-determination and introspection. His story is a testament to the strength of the human spirit, and his business journey showcases how proactive steps and self-awareness can conquer even the toughest challenges.

Our discussion takes a thrilling turn as we explore Brad's spiritual adventures and cosmic awakenings. Imagine meditative encounters with celestial entities and reflections on past lives that have equipped Brad to empower others in their own journeys. His experiences offer unique insights into leadership and self-reflection, emphasising the importance of listening, inspiring others, and cultivating a collaborative environment. Brad challenges us to reflect on our growth and potential, encouraging a journey of personal development that could lead to extraordinary transformations. Whether you're seeking personal evolution or simply curious about the mysteries of the mind, this episode is a treasure trove of wisdom and inspiration.

Find Brad here:
stellarinsightinc.com

Chapters

• 0:02 Understanding Deep Intuition and Spiritual Evolution
• 13:12 Taking Responsibility for Personal Transformation
• 21:44 Personal Transformation and Cosmic Evolution
• 25:42 Spiritual Awakening and Cosmic Harmony
• 38:25 Inspiring Leadership and Self-Reflection

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

Truth and Transcendence, brought to you by being Space with Katherine Llewellyn. Truth and Transcendence, episode 198, with special guest Brad Smith. Brad is here today to talk about deep intuition. Brad runs a masterclass for deep intuition development for CEOs and R&D teams. He has studied mysticism, intuition and human development for more than 55 years. He's been an analytical chemist, a production plant and equipment designer, a business manager, a business consultant and an executive coach for CEOs and business owners. So this is an interesting man of many parts And-Ccom. So that's where you can find him and that will be in the show notes as well. So, brad, thank you so much for coming on the show. I'm delighted.

Speaker 1: 1:23

I'm delighted. So you have been interested in deep intuition for some time. Are you able?

Speaker 2: 1:40

to kind of cast your mind back and remember the first time that you realized that intuition was very important. Well, my pursuit was not intuition. My pursuit was, if you would, spiritual evolution. And so I started doing practices, meditation included, and I realized to answer your question I had been doing those for about seven or maybe eight months and at the same time I was an analytical formulation chemist and in that work I would run into blocks. It's like okay, here's a dead end, I don't have the answers. On the other side of that chasm, if you would. And so I would stop and have to analyze things.

Speaker 2: 2:21

I was standing in my lab thinking through the things that I had to work through to get to a product I was formulating, and I realized that I could hold six times as much information in my mind at the same time and correlate it than I could seven months earlier. That was like a huge aha, because I could literally hold and there's more stories behind that but I could hold six times as much information that I could when I was, you know, linear, analytically thinking about things. It would go point A, point B, point C and maybe jump a few steps right, but this time, in the lab. I was able to hold the whole experiment in my mind and correlate all the parts that worked and find out the specific puzzle. It's like being able to hold a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle in your head and find the four pieces you haven't put together yet.

Speaker 1: 3:24

Right, and you suddenly were able to do this, and you weren't able to do it put together yet. Right, and you suddenly were able to do this, and you weren't able to do it seven months beforehand, right? So what? What happened in between those two times?

Speaker 2: 3:33

Well, it was like between before and after. It's like I worked. You know, I did my work right, but it was like one morning I had this realization that I had capabilities that I didn't. It was all right. Right, I'm going to describe it to people so they know what deep intuition is when you have an epiphany, the brain bounces into a whole system process that when you're doing any QEEG measuring the brain electrical activity we normally have beta for analytical thinking, alpha for daydreaming, theta for the first part of a 90-minute sleep cycle and delta for the deepest part of what our brain operates at in the bottom 30 minutes of a 90-minute sleep cycle. And occasionally you'll have gamma, which means the whole brain is active and synchronizing across the whole brain. What happens when you have an epiphany is the whole brain kits into gamma and you've got the whole brain working all at once. So what that means is you've gotten an information chunk. If you would, that correlates all the stuff that you've been working on. Whatever problem it is that you get the epiphany about right. I had an epiphany that was not a good speaker, so it's like oh, okay, fine, what are we going to do about that, right? So in the process of doing that.

Speaker 2: 5:13

That's what deep intuition feels like. Think about every one of you that's listening has had an epiphany of one sort or another to answer a question. Maybe it's one you're working on, maybe it's one you've kind of daydreamed a little bit about. It's like okay. Or maybe it's just an aha about life. You've had them. That's what deep intuition is. Being able to hold that state open on a constant basis and ask for continual feed of information from your subconscious and the collective unconscious is what deep intuition is about. I want people to have that.

Speaker 1: 5:51

Got it. So you are describing deep intuition as a state, aren't you? Rather than a skill or a faculty or a…? It is both.

Speaker 2: 6:04

It is a state of being, but it's something you can consciously regulate.

Speaker 1: 6:09

Yeah, okay, but I'm just really struck by the way you're describing it as being different from how people often describe intuition. You know, they describe intuition as if it's some sort of talent as opposed to a state, because a state and a talent are not the same thing. They might be coexistent, but it's two different ways of looking at the same thing, isn't it?

Speaker 2: 6:37

Oh, dear Catherine just froze for the last 60 seconds or so.

Speaker 1: 6:42

Okay, well, I'm here now.

Speaker 2: 6:44

Okay.

Speaker 1: 6:45

So you didn't hear what I just said.

Speaker 2: 6:47

No, please say it again.

Speaker 1: 6:48

Okay, cool, so listeners are going to hear it twice. Obviously there's an important reason for that. So I was saying that often when people talk about intuition, they talk about it as if it's some sort of talent or gift or something. People don't tend to speak about it as a state. It sounds like you're saying it's both.

Speaker 2: 7:11

It's both. I mean it's a gift.

Speaker 1: 7:14

Yeah, but you're emphasizing the state aspect of it and the way you're describing it in relationship to these different modes of awakeness or dreaming or whatever we might think of. I haven't heard people talk about intuition in exactly that way before, so I find that very interesting. So please continue.

Speaker 2: 7:34

Well, it's been interesting to experience. So we have our physical, waking consciousness. We run around and we're comfortable. By the time you hit your 20s, you're comfortable with it and you have dreaming, which is where your brain remembers a dream state, and then you have higher levels of consciousness above that. So, as you meditate, what happens is especially with binaural beat meditation, but it doesn't matter whether you're using mantras or just counting your breath or whatever. Over time, what happens is the brain builds neural networks, because we're plastic, right. It remolds itself. It builds neural networks across the brain so that the whole brain eventually gets to the place where it operates together. In addition to that, we have lucid dreaming Okay, well, this is like being. Intuition is then a state above lucid dreaming, where you have access to more of the collective unconscious, the collective conscious mind, if you will. We have individual physical consciousness, we have the individual subconscious and we have the collective unconscious, as Carl Jung described it.

Speaker 1: 9:08

Yes.

Speaker 2: 9:08

And somewhere between normal analytical thinking point A, point B, point C and the way I describe intuition as being able to go to point A, point Q, point Z, whatever and you do that in jumps. Well, deep intuition is being able to stand back and be in the whole alphabet all at once. Yeah, that is more specific.

Speaker 1: 9:37

Yes, thank you yes.

Speaker 2: 9:40

Beyond that, what happens is we evolve eventually to where we are what's called omniscient. We know everything to do with Earth. That's a really exalted state. Buddha had that right and eventually Jesus evolved to that and the other mystics right. They eventually got to it. But Earth is a school for us to learn those skills. All of us have that potential in front of us Now if you've done a lot of the drugs you've burned out the receptor.

Speaker 2: 10:19

That's why I don't do drugs. I heard that I'm going. Okay, I'm done Because I want this as a continual state, whether I'm in this body or another.

Speaker 1: 10:28

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:29

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 10:29

Okay, so clearly you're very grounded in this understanding. How did, how did you gain this understanding?

Speaker 2: 10:38

Years of study. It's like I wanted to understand what happened to me in the lab. What happened to me when I have that kind of altered state, the most expanded I have been. Well, I won't describe that, but when you get to a certain place you start having experiences above and outside your physical body and still grounded in your physical body. If you've developed that skill, yeah.

Speaker 1: 11:14

So where did you go when you had this extraordinary experience?

Speaker 2: 11:19

Oh, I realized what I had been doing was working. That was part of my second epiphany that day. It's like, oh look, I can hold the whole experiment in my mind and correlate all the parts that are working right.

Speaker 1: 11:33

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 11:33

And then my second thought was oh, what I've been doing works, we're going to keep doing it, yeah.

Speaker 1: 11:43

So prior to that you've been meditating and doing other things.

Speaker 2: 11:46

Right Meditation tanaynama. People have looked that up. So breathing exercises, energy movement exercises and a couple others.

Speaker 1: 11:58

Do you think that if people follow those sorts of because someone could hear you saying this and think, yeah, but this guy's uniquely talented, you know, I'm never going to connect with all this stuff, right, you know do you think that if people do embark on some of those practices that you just described, that it's an inevitable path to reach that sort of awareness?

Speaker 2: 12:21

Or you do think that oh, I know it for a fact.

Speaker 1: 12:25

How do you know it for a?

Speaker 2: 12:25

fact Because, all right, I'm going to go way down the rabbit hole right now I have memory of about 54 different lives over a 20,000, 40,000 year span Not the whole life, but chunks of them, right, and in that process. What I've watched in that process is the evolution of my abilities that showed up this lifetime. So if you put a lot of work into it, you get a lot of. You can do it in one lifetime but, you don't.

Speaker 2: 13:00

You know, it doesn't necessarily have to be that way, but whatever you do adds to whatever you've done and it shows up that way. So that's one part of the description process. As I've studied who I am and what I am like, brad's the beaker right. Put things in the beaker and see what happens and experiment with Brad the beaker right. I love that. Oh, you know, I, I, yeah, it's, it's how I treat myself. It's like.

Speaker 2: 13:31

I like me, I treat myself really well. But that's only after years of not treating myself really well, the start of my story. A couple of pieces, but one fall term, freshman year at Oregon State, I developed an ulcerated bleeding colon. Ouch, okay, got to the doctor and the doctor changed my life in three sentences. First one was gee, brad, if you'd have waited to come see me this is to an 18-year-old if you'd have waited to come see me, if you'd have waited six weeks to come see me this is to an 18-year-old if you'd have waited to come see me, if you'd have waited six weeks to come see me, you'd have bled to death. Right, he had my attention completely because it hurt all the time and it bled pretty much all the time. Okay, then he said you'll never eat strawberries, corn or lettuce or anything with roughage. These are things I liked Ever again in your life.

Speaker 2: 14:28

And my 18-year-old brain said fat chance, buddy, that's not happening. And then he said you have a psychosomatic disease. Your emotions affect the severity of your symptoms. I knew what that word meant and it meant that I had created my disease. Knew what that word meant and it meant that I had created my disease. And if I had created it unconsciously, then I could figure out how to make it conscious and uncreated. So I had a 100% commitment to conquer this sucker.

Speaker 2: 14:57

It's not if it was just when and how. So nine months later, 10 months later, I had the no. About six months later I had it down to where the bleeding was not all the time, it was episodic. Okay, then the pain was still there, and that took about another three years. So four years after the doctor visit, I had the pain settle down to where it was episodic.

Speaker 2: 15:28

But I was looking for the cause. What decisions had I made, even unconsciously? What decisions had I made that put my body into that state? And so I tracked it back and back, and back and back and back and finally uncovered what I thought was my first spanking at about normal memory. At about 11 months old.

Speaker 2: 15:51

I was walking, I had the lid off the diaper pail, I was playing with the diapers because there was a cool cloud that came off the back end of it right, I mean a really clear memory, the back end of it, right, let me know really clearly.

Speaker 2: 16:06

And so my poor mom saw that totally freaked out which is very understandable and spanked me and hauled me away from it, washed my hands, put the lid on the diaper pail right and scolded me. And I felt at that moment, emotionally, I made the decision that I'd gone from unconditional love from her to conditional love, that I had to be a certain way, and that's what was the core of my disease at 47. So 18 was the wake up, and 47, I finally found a hypnotherapist she's a good friend now, but a hypnotherapist that took me back into that, regressed me back to that 11-month-old, one-year state and reworked that memory from an adult perspective rather than a one-year-old's perspective, and within a year all my symptoms were gone permanently. Wow, congratulations. Well, so if we can conquer that, there is nothing in our life we can't conquer.

Speaker 1: 17:06

Yeah, so you sound to me like somebody who, when something's got your attention, you're going to grab it and you're going to address it Right. Have you always been like that?

Speaker 2: 17:20

Well, no, as near as I can remember.

Speaker 1: 17:32

Because that's a fantastic asset to have really, because otherwise we can get these epiphanies and these insights but then we sort of moan and whinge about it for another 30 years. Well, I don't like being a victim.

Speaker 2: 17:45

So what this psychosomatic word taught me was I was already in charge, I just didn't know it. And so if your life has certain aspects to it that you don't like, you're the one that created it. What's the purpose of that? So I got deeper into that. What's the purpose of our life the way it is? Good relationship, bad relationship, good money, bad money, good money, bad money, good world, bad world. That's the one we're working on right now right.

Speaker 2: 18:16

And so you go back into what are the decisions that make that? So here's another piece out of my business, woke up in a business, woke up in a business coaching people, and I realized about two years into oh gee, brad, if you don't go, get new clients, you're not going to have a business and you'll have to go back and get a job. Do you want to work for somebody else? No, I like what I do. A lot.

Speaker 2: 18:45

So what are you going to do about that? Oh, go get new clients. Well, what's that going to mean? So what are you going to do about that? Oh, go get new clients. Well, what's that going to mean? Well, the only solution I had at that time was get a list of all the business employers you know big employers in the area and cold call them and, you know, find out who wants to evolve and grow. That's not how I put it, it's like who wants to achieve certain goals, right.

Speaker 2: 19:12

So I did cold calling and one afternoon I was halfway you know, partway through the list, worked from the bottom up to practice, right, and I ran into five people and finally the last guy and I appreciate this from him he just shredded me to death. It's like, ow, that was really, really bad. I got off the phone, I hung up why does that feel so bad? And I realized after you know, put paper up, start writing, coaching myself if you would. And what I got to was oh, you're giving everyone you call the permission, the responsibility, of setting my value with me. Yes, that is huge, that's from the outside in.

Speaker 2: 19:54

Well, I'm going to give my parents that responsibility and that's what I gave them when I was, you know, one year old, right, two years old. I gave them the responsibility Didn't know that, but I gave them the responsibility of setting my value with myself. So if I don't set my value with myself only and I give that responsibility to everybody else, I'm going to continue to have really bad phone calls. So it took about a week. I changed that. I was only giving people the opportunity to work with me. I was no longer giving them the responsibility to set my value with myself, and I changed my whole life.

Speaker 1: 20:35

Yeah, and I'll bet it's much more attractive as a coach as well.

Speaker 2: 20:39

Well, it meant what I was working on with people was to help them be the power in their lives, not everything else. Yes, Fantastic.

Speaker 1: 20:49

You're very good at the self-adjusting business, Mind you. You're looking back now, aren't you? I bet it wasn't quite as smooth as it might sound now.

Speaker 2: 20:56

Well, but that's the intuition. Like Brad, here's a trail. Follow this sucker right. Conquer this disease. Well, the disease is my best teacher. I know Rav really well now. I know my emotions, I know my character. I know what works, I know what doesn't work. Look everyone here's homework. Look at your life and see what works and what doesn't work. What are you good at right? Well, that's a set of skills you've developed. What are you not good at? What doesn't work in your life? That's a set of skills and decisions you've made to have it be different than what you want.

Speaker 1: 21:38

Yeah, yeah. So it's a complete responsibility for the state of play. Adulthood Right, what Adulthood.

Speaker 2: 21:48

Adulthood, right? It's like the whole point of being a human being is to have that wake-up call I'm responsible for everything in my life. Well, if I'm not responsible for something in my life, who am I giving that responsibility to? Yeah, right, I might share it with my partner, right? But it's like, okay, if I'm not sharing it, then I'm irresponsible.

Speaker 1: 22:15

Yeah right, yeah, fantastic, well, amazing. So you've you've done all this work and you brought yourself to this place you're at now, which means you're now a great resource for other people. So you sounds like you made some significant shifts after having started doing coaching with people, and you were, you were working with corporate clients, and you're still doing that now yep, I mean, I've got a skill I might as well do.

Speaker 2: 22:41

I love doing the work yeah, the way I describe it.

Speaker 2: 22:45

The reason I renamed my company stellar insight is what I do when I work with a client is I listen carefully to what they want and where they're at, and almost always there's a gap.

Speaker 2: 22:59

And if they're where they're at and it's what they want, then fine, there's no need for coaching. But if there's a gap between where they are and what they want, for whatever reason, right, they need a whole string of epiphanies to get there. And what I do is I, when I sit down with someone, is I look at them, I look at their character, I listen deeply to how they see themselves, how they feel about themselves and their world, and then I understand the epiphanies they have to go through in order to get to their goal. Maybe I don't know them all immediately to articulate them, but I know there's a string of them and my job is to listen deeply enough to them and ask them the right questions so that they get to their epiphanies when they are ready for them, not before, but when they're ready for it, as soon as they can handle them. So I get them ready to handle the epiphanies and they start popping and they get to their goal. I named my company Stellar Insight, because what I sell is insight.

Speaker 1: 24:08

Yeah, and why Stellar? Because of the is insight. Yeah, and why stellar?

Speaker 2: 24:11

Because of the low stars, ah Right, well, stand back and think about it. If there is evolution and I know this for a fact because I've had conversations with them each one of those beings, each one of those stars, each one of the galaxies we see in the night sky is a conscious, designed, active being Human beings. We've got 8 billion of us on the planet right now. Our eventual goal is to either be a planet or some range of thing between there and here.

Speaker 1: 24:52

Okay, so are you saying that the Earth is a being, also Yep, and the Sun and the solar system?

Speaker 2: 25:02

We've had conversations with both and that is very rare and a dear gift, the fact that they would even pay attention to the little rat ant.

Speaker 1: 25:15

So how did that would you describe? I mean, that sounds like you've had that experience more than once. So what's that experience like? Can you describe it to someone? Because I haven't had that experience. So do you think you might be able to describe it in a way where I can get some sense of it, of what it feels like?

Speaker 2: 25:34

I had an experience and I've had no. I've had two. I'll describe. Um, one day in meditation, I was sitting down this was 1996, sat down in meditation and this 30-foot angel stands up out of me, out of me right, stands up and looks down at me and says you've forgotten who you are right. And it passed. And that was that day. The next day I sat down in meditation and there's a shift in my consciousness, just like that, right. It's like going from not aware to more present, right, and all of a sudden, my body. So we identify. You know, I identify. This is my body, right, my body was the solar system, my body was the solar system and my consciousness was kind of off to the side a little bit. But I could look down inside me and all the planets and the sun and recognize that there were conscious, active beings, alive. Alive, maybe not physical, but alive on every one of the planets and some of the moons. Inside me that's. That was like bible in my brain.

Speaker 2: 27:01

You can't think you weren't where the whole solar system, I was, the whole solar system. I could look down and see the planets were inside me, the moons were inside me, all of these live beings were inside me, and the dust in between, the solar dust right, planetary, the solar disk, if you would right, the planetary disk. That was all me, right, and that lasted about two minutes and then it went away. That was a very exalted state, but I recognized how conscious everything was all the way through. Well, that's one. That was the very exalted state, but I recognized how conscious everything was all the way through. That's one. That was the first one, the next one that I had.

Speaker 2: 27:41

I went to a practitioner that does more now, but she did the planetary reconnection work. I haven't heard of that. That's where the ley lines are reconstructed, right, okay, and there, and you're hooked back into it. Yeah, but she was doing that to me. I'm aware of people in the astral plane, the next level up, where ghosts hang out, and then above that, where souls hang out, right. I'm aware that, where souls hang out, right, I'm aware of that. So I lay down on the table and she turns the lights down just a little bit so it's dimmer, and then starts working on my feet and instantly there's people all around me on the other side working on me and as she works her way up my left side and around me, but the first thing that happens, she puts her hands on my feet and this woman on the other side said, oh goody, it's him.

Speaker 2: 28:37

I have no idea what that meant. And so she's working her way around me, she gets to my head and then she starts down my right side. She got about level with my heart on my right side and all of a sudden all of those people went away and it got still and quiet and vast and a star showed up and this Earth showed up. And then two other big planets, not from this solar system, showed up and I went through some sort of initiation, if you would. I've never heard this described anywhere, but every one of those the sun had a consciousness to it and a personality and a personality, consciousness to it and a personality and a personality. Well, all three of the planets kind of like earth was my sponsor and the other two planets were there, but they had personalities. You know, I'm in the field to who they were, as well as being conscious beings. What they did. I have no idea, but I got reconnected to the earth apparently. So there we are. It's funny just before.

Speaker 1: 29:54

Thank you so much for sharing that. Uh, just before you mentioned that, the female voice said oh goody, it's him. Just before you said that, I had a thought which was I get the feeling you're quite popular with these various entities, and then suddenly you said that.

Speaker 2: 30:12

You know, but it's like that's not from being Brad right, no. So, of the 54 lives, 10 of them, eight of them I actively remember and two have been alluded to. I've had 10 waters as a monk, right, hindu, buddhist, and one as a Catholic monk, which is monk in Spain in the 1600s. That was not a fun one, wow. I've had to work through a lot of garbage from that one. Yeah Right, but it's like what are my two big issues in this life that I've worked through? Well, romance is one, because you take a chastity file, right, and the other one is you take a poverty file. So what's that about? So money and what do I work with? I help make people millionaires, and I've got a couple I'm going to help make billionaires. So it's like what do you do with them, right? It's like you work through my issues and, as a result of that, I get to help other people work through their issues.

Speaker 1: 31:13

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2: 31:15

If you dug out the trench, you know exactly what it's all about.

Speaker 1: 31:19

Yeah, great. Well, you seem very happy as you describe all of this. You seem to be really loving it doing all of this, Am I right?

Speaker 2: 31:29

I'm what I call a compulsive optimist right right.

Speaker 2: 31:34

it's like it's not. If it has a good, I'll jump back, but it's not if it has a good purpose. It's how long it takes you to figure it out. It's like colitis wasn't fun, but it's the best, one of the best things that ever happened to me. Yeah, right, I mean, it was really good. I picked my dad, who was a chemical engineer with a PhD in biochemistry, because he taught me to think like an engineer. If there's a cause, if there's an outcome, there's a cause, right, and if I'm responsible, then I did it. If I did it, then I've got control of it, right, and if not, then I've chosen to share that responsibility. Well, I've chosen to be part of the human race and I'm sharing the responsibility we all have for making this a better planet.

Speaker 2: 32:26

Yeah, Amazing, that's my part and my part is to wake people up to what's possible. If you can't be omniscient, but you could be a work your way to it, go for deep intuition and be able to hold yourself. In the middle of that. There's an exercise I do when I was doing my analytical formulation work and I'd have the epiphany. I trained myself into using that just awake state, you know, in theta and alpha brainwave level, to pull answers out of the subconscious.

Speaker 2: 33:01

If I had a problem, I would map out all the stuff that I knew for a fact right in my lab and the part I didn't have. And then I would train myself into go, take a 15-minute nap in my office, wake up from the nap and have the answer. And I got the answer about 80 to 90 percent of the time when I woke up and if not, it would be a couple more days. I would and that's what I did, tra did trained myself into that use the state when you wake up to answer the questions you don't have answers to yet. Okay, write it down, talk about it to yourself just before you go to sleep and write down what you get when you wake up. Everybody use that.

Speaker 1: 33:48

We'll be better off I have used that myself. It's invaluable. It is particularly useful in a situation I can't find the answer. So I better just open to being given the answer from elsewhere and accepted and say thank you yeah, thank you, thank you amazing.

Speaker 1: 34:08

Well, I honestly I could talk to you for hours. It's so fascinating, and I also really respect the work's not quite the right word, but the path you've trodden in terms of all the work you've done, all the dedicated exploration and study and practice, on yourself and on behalf of other people. I have great respect and gratitude for people who do that kind of thing and I also really appreciate your description of that experience with the planets and the stars, because that's outside of my experience. I mean, I have had interesting experiences, but not those interesting experiences.

Speaker 2: 34:51

I mean there's others, but still.

Speaker 1: 34:53

I'm sure there are many, many more, but when somebody shares something like that, particularly on something like a podcast, I consider that to be a gift, because it's a slightly risky thing to share. You know, there's a lot of people who could think, well, what? But actually no, the fact is there are a lot of interesting and unusual and surprising experiences to be had, and let's share those, let's hear people sharing those. I think that's part of the way forward for us. I really do. So I'm just going to switch slightly and talk about leaders. Okay, and talk about leaders Okay, and you mentioned one of the things we're working on at the moment is good world, bad world. How are we going to?

Speaker 2: 35:37

do that Well, yeah.

Speaker 1: 35:39

I describe it this way Go on.

Speaker 2: 35:41

I describe it this way If Earth is the first kindergarten preschool, most of us are in preschool Kindergarten first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade. The standard process on earth is to learn our way through five grades of evolution. Okay, I'll describe it this way for the people that are Christians or at least have gotten close to the Bible Jesus, when he went through the crucifixion, went through the fourth level. He graduated from the fourth grade, from the fourth grade. Okay, that was the graduation process. You can dig into it deeper and I can describe that to other people, but not on this.

Speaker 2: 36:30

The fifth grade that he demonstrated for us was the conscious resurrection. Conscious resurrection of his physical body. Okay, what that means is when you've gone through the top level on this earth, right, you can consciously recreate a physical body. Think about that All the molecules, all the systems, the brain, the nervous system, all the different organs consciously recreated, right? So if we can do that, what would we be able to give other people? Right, you have to love yourself a lot and not identify with the physical body, but identify with your consciousness. That's the goal for all of us on earth. So as we grow and evolve, we're going to learn as a population how to conquer. First you have to have ethics Good, bad, indifferent. And if you haven't gotten to the place where you can know consciously you're truthful all the time, then you're not ready to do that work. When was the last time you told a white lie? Check into that right.

Speaker 1: 37:59

Well, I think you might have answered the question I was about to ask you, which was about I like to think that there are a lot of people who are either in leadership positions or who are simply trying to be leaders in their own lives including me who are trying to be part of the solution, you know, trying to be helpful, um, in in the best, in the best way. They know how right and I think there are these people all over the planet and I was going to say to you is is there something you'd like to say, particularly to those people, because some of them are listening to this podcast?

Speaker 2: 38:40

okay. So there's a lot of things you can do to become a better leader.

Speaker 2: 38:44

One of them is just call me and talk to me, but yes, call brand listening listening with your whole being, not just listen with part of your brain when you're listening and thinking about what you're going to say in response. Listen with your full attention to whoever is talking. Then ask appropriate questions to draw them out further. So if we share that wisdom between us and insight between us, then we get better. That's a good leader. Okay, a good leader uses all the brains in the room and it's been described as like if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room. That's a quote from somebody.

Speaker 1: 39:32

I like that quote.

Speaker 2: 39:33

Right. If you're the smartest person in the room, go get a different room right. Hire people that are smarter than you, that in maybe specific areas, but hire them. Delegate the thinking beyond your own brain. That's what I would have as leaders Listen, ask questions and inspire. The job of a manager is to tell people. The job of a leader is to inspire them and draw them out. Make it a safe place for people to share their best. That's leading. Thank you. I cannot disagree with that. That's brilliant.

Speaker 1: 40:15

Thank you very much. Thank you, I cannot disagree with that. That's brilliant. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2: 40:20

Thank you.

Speaker 1: 40:21

So let's remind people where they can find you, which is StellaInsightInccom, and if they go there, will they be able to contact you. Will they be able to arrange to talk to you? Yes, both.

Speaker 2: 40:39

They can set a time on my calendar right from there. I think they can call me from there too. But if you want to talk to me, set a time on my calendar so I know you're coming and then we can just have fun. Tell me what you want to talk about. Tell me the goals you haven't achieved, that you're really ambitious. I don't like to work with people that are not ambitious. If you're ambitious, come call me.

Speaker 1: 41:03

Very nice. So one question I always like to ask my guests, as we're starting to come towards the end of the conversation, is we've talked about quite a lot today. I've so enjoyed what you shared with us. Has there been a favorite part of our conversation for you today?

Speaker 2: 41:22

Being able to describe intuition and then being able to describe. These are very close to me, those conversations with stars, right and our planet. I didn't even get into that one.

Speaker 1: 41:40

Next time and finally maybe not finally is there for the listeners, because I think it's great to give the listeners some sort of inquiry question that they can reflect on over the coming week. Is there something that you'd like to offer the listeners as some sort of reflection question for them over the coming week?

Speaker 2: 42:05

Who do they want to be? What do they want in their life? That's a symptom, if you will, an outcome, of who they are. Who do they want to be to create what they want, and what have they not done yet? What questions haven't they asked yet of themselves? Right, I just recently got fed up with my you know, financial issues and finally said, okay, fine. So I bought, dug out the book, the energy of money, and started going through one of the really hard questions I haven't asked myself in a while. So I went down through them and I uncovered some epiphanies that I needed to have again in my life. When one of them came down to is there is no again, no part of my life I'm not responsible for. So who do you need to be, what do you want to do, what do you want the results in your life to be, and what haven't you asked yourself yet?

Speaker 1: 43:12

Yes, Well, I think that will give people something to reflect on over the coming week. It could be very, very valuable. Thank you so much. Now we are going to finish in a moment, but before we do, is there anything else that, if you don't share it with us, you'll regret it in about an hour's time?

Speaker 2: 43:30

no well, our main goal is to be self-aware, and if you're not meditating yet, I want you to consider it, because the whole point of meditation isn't, you know, go sit somewhere in a cave, right. The whole point of meditation is self-awareness and self-regulation, from your consciousness down into all the parts of your emotions, your mind, your dreams, your health. Meditate.

Speaker 1: 44:05

Thank you, Brad Smith. It's been an absolute delight having you on the show and I hope you have a beautiful day. Thank you, I hope you have a beautiful day. Thank you. Thank you for listening to Truth and Transcendence and thank you for supporting the show by rating, reviewing, subscribing, buying me a coffee and telling a friend. If you'd like to know more about my work, you can find out about Transformational Coaching, Pellewa and the freedom of spirit workshop on beingspaceworld. Have a wonderful week and I'll see you next time.